Welcome back to Pledge Break, the podcast where two old friends talk about the Doctor Who version of history and the history of Doctor Who! In this episode, we’re looking at the William Hartnell oddity The Gunfighters, a divisive story with a peculiar brand of what Sidney Newman politely called “mickey-taking.”

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The gunfight also appears in Star Trek, of course, in an episode which portrays the Earps and Doc Holliday – who are, in fairness, avatars created by aliens trying to prove that humans are all dicks – as straight up, black hat monsters pushing the hapless Cowboys – embodied by the crew – into a desperate fight.